On 16th Dec 2007, merlins greatest fan wrote,

dude this game is AWESOME!!!!I like the fact u can have an army, and theres dialogue,which makes it more RPG the spells are pretty fun,ok so actually i love everything about this game, who wouldnt? maybe for another game series you could be like controlling armies with different characters and a fresh plot?anyway this game is Awesome with a capital AW


lokey57 replied,

Agreed, MR is an awesome game.

On 2nd Dec 2007, kmann wrote,

Can you play Merlins Revenge on a Mac? When I try to play the screen just comes up blank.


lokey57 replied,

Do you have flash and shockwave installed? I believe you can play it as long as you have the two of them installed.

On 1st Dec 2007, cjfjcjfjc wrote,

I have found a bug. if you destroy a necromancer just after it has fired its blast, you can leave the screen while there's still a ghost on it.


lokey57 replied,

If I recall that bug was around for a while now. Thanks for pointing it out still! But please use the bug report system if its still active rather than comments for bugs.

On 29th Nov 2007, Darren wrote,

Sorry if u just got a blank message it was an accident.
Just wanted to say that the zoom has a slight...ok, severe tendency to...crash


lokey57 replied,

Noted and forwarded. And don't worry, we didn't get one.

On 23rd Nov 2007, Foundation (Myself :D) wrote,

Hello, I'm think about making an imitation of the most basic elements of merlin's revenge in java for one of my final projects. Could I have some of the basic graphics? I'm probably not going to be so advanced as to add in the animation, but I'd appreciate if you could allow me to use one of merlin's pictures instead of a blue box, my original desigh. :D

Thanks. My email is already up there. It's really a great series of games you're making here. :) My friends and I love this game.

FS


lokey57 replied,

Check the downloads section for the graphics. Good luck on your imitation!

On 22nd Nov 2007, Pat wrote,

What do dwarf do?


lokey57 replied,

The Dwarf builds a tower which launches gigantic axes at the enemy, if he's attacked before hand he'll throw small axes at them and stop construction.

On 14th Nov 2007, Matthias wrote,

Hey, first off, I love the games here. However, for ALL of the merlin games, which is all I play, unless I get lucky, I can't play for more than two minutes without it freezing it up and I need to start over. Is this a problem on your end or mine, and if mine, what should I do to prevent this? My flashplayer and shockwave stuff is all the most recent stuff. let me know, thanks


lokey57 replied,

I believe this is a problem on your end, as the rest of us are able to play it just fine. Try reinstalling Flash and Shockwave? (Sorry best answer I can give with my limited knowledge of programming >_<)

On 9th Nov 2007, ♪ (in response to eivind) wrote,

You can find the textures in the mr3 open downloads, but you should read Steve's disclaimer before using it.


lokey57 replied,

Thanks for pointing that out!

On 31st Oct 2007, Eivind wrote,

Hi,
I wondered if its possible to get to grass texture from the merlins revenge games??

Mvh Eivind


lokey57 replied,

I'm supposing that you're asking for the grass texture... and thats up to steve... It technically is his property...

On 29th Oct 2007, Geoffrey Lalonde wrote,

So my nun/monk got killed off, and now it appears to be a ghost flying around, I really want my nun/monk back, can i get the ghost somehow?


lokey57 replied,

Uh if I'm correct, that ghost merges with a new monk to give him half the xp the monk had. Of course... I didn't really play that much so I'm just guessing. But there is no way to revive your monks sadly.(Or any unit in general)

On 20th Oct 2007, Matt wrote,

you should have a single ownload for MR3 because all the separate pieces make it diffucult to run.


lokey57 replied,

Asked Steve about this, here's his response.

Steve:Yeah that's not a bad idea.
I might do that

(copied from google talk.)

So its up to him now :P.

Thanks for the idea!
Lokey57

On 20th Oct 2007, Matt wrote,

You should be able to summon your entire army at once and set tasks for each unit. Ex: sword solider guard other solider or charge enemies.


lokey57 replied,

Eh...I think this should be in the suggestion database but eh whatever. Well that is a nice idea, however from a gamer's perspective here's my problems with the idea.

1.Overly complicated, not to mention it would make the game a bit too easy if you just hopped on a screen, clicked one button and summoned everything, then hid while your army does all the work.
2.The AI is rather stupid so I don't know what would happen if you did that.

Now for possible problems (after we find a programmer to take over)

Overly complicated, you would have to design multiple AI personalities, a way to summon all of them without lagging everyone to death, and implement a command system. Too much work imo.

Thanks for the idea though!

On 2nd Oct 2007, peewee250 wrote,

This kinda sucks considering that while i was playing mrtb i accidentally clicked on the ads. which sucked because i didn't save. i was planning on finishing the game.I was like in the middle of the game with the last 2 spells and then the web changes. oh well sucks for me. i just think the adds are too close to the game


lokey57 replied,

I'll ask Steve about it, for now please remember to save when you can.

On 28th Sep 2007, HugoBlack wrote,

I liked your MR games so much!they are very fun!


Steve replied,

Thanks man :)

On 13th Aug 2007, comand65 wrote,

How come in merlin 3 theres only 8 soldiers? i wish there were ten on your side. (i know a late question isn't it?)


Steve replied,

I had to balance the number of soldiers against the number of enemies and the speed the game ran. Originally I wanted 16 soldiers and 64 enemies, but the game ran too slowly.

On 9th Aug 2007, DUDE_2000 wrote,

How do you use army, as it does not seem to work for me, nor will Berlin summon.


Steve replied,

- Collect the army summon spell
- fire blank blasts at friendly units (archer, warrior, monk, dwarf)
- charge army summon until icon shows desired unit
- fire it at an open part of the map (ie, not a tree or boulder) to summon the unit.
- to bring the unit with you or save him from dying, fire a blank blast at him.

To summon Berlin press 'f'. To unsummon, press 'f' again, or fire a blank army summon spell at him. Obviously, you have to find him first though.

On 8th Jul 2007, doofy wrote,

Hey mr3 is fun but you should have used the big map you used for the betas. Could you possibly put that online again I want to play it again. For the army summon thing my troops keep getting killed before I have a chance to summon my entire army, it would be awsome if you could summon your entire army in one go. Anyway, see ya.


Steve replied,

I couldn't properly play-test that map and it sucked a bit toward the end.

But yeah, I'll try to put up a page with it on in case people do want to play it. It will probably take me a while to get around to it though.

On 7th Jul 2007, cool_dog999 wrote,

hey, I really like mr3 its was awsome its rally cool how the dwarves build towers plus those towers own well i hope mr4 would be alot better and thanks.... mr is awsome to play and entertaining


Steve replied,

Thanks man, I'm hoping that MR4 will be bigger and better. The TMB community is giving me more help than ever - it's fantastic!

On 28th Jun 2007, Carefree_Butterfly wrote,

Hi, um, you said you were gonna contact us about the little token of gratitude thing and how to send it to us... you haven't yet.

Not wanting to be pushy, I just wanted to remind you of that.


Steve replied,

Yes indeed. Sorry about that. I've just been very rushed lately. I haven't forgotten about it. I'll get to it as soon as I can.

On 16th Jun 2007, Savok (N/A) wrote,

I'm sure these have been asked dozens of times before, but I'd like to know the answers.

1. If you charge a spell on one screen, going to a chargeminus screen does not affect it, thus we can have one full-size spell on e any screen. Is this a bug, a feature, or something else?

2. Energy blast loses its ability to damage but retains its stun potential on the 1% levels. While useful, if you get a static buzz from a car door or similar, do you get stunned for a few seconds?

3. You can have a few energy pulse spells at once on all non-1% maps. On the 1% maps, you can have effectively one energy pulse spell active at once. This is at most a 75% reduction, not a 99% reduction. Sure, it is incredibly useful (even eliminating the need for blokes with swords), but why is it there?


Steve replied,

1. Since the spell was charged on the other screen it can be full size. It does not need magic from the chargeminus screen to maintain it. It only draws magic when it is being charged, so it is perfectly logical that you can bring in bigger blasts.

2. The Energy blast still does a tiny amount of damage.

3. The energy Pulse spell outputs energy pulses until it is drained. At 1% of it's max size there it is still big enough for 1 pulse. Perfectly logical. The 99% reduction is in the maximum size of the spell, not it's effectiveness.